The Gauteng department of education has opened an investigation after a grade 12 girl pupil at Diepsloot Secondary School (No 3) committed suicide last week due to alleged bullying.
Youth brigades screening and sanitising pupils in all schools were also applauded for their work.
Teachers and government officials who succumbed to Covid-19 have been remembered by Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi.
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has dedicated the 83.8% matric pass rate achieved by the province s matriculants to all teachers and officials who have succumbed to Covid-19.
Announcing the provincial results on Wednesday in Mondeor, Johannesburg, Lesufi said the province had lost 34 teachers and 18 government officials due to the pandemic.
He said:
We will always remember them and say it was not in vain.
Lesufi also dedicated the achievement to the almost 2 500 youth brigade members working in all schools.
Trashed school not open 22 February 2021 - 10:18 By Yoliswa Sobuwa Diepsloot Secondary School pupils have not resumed classes after the facility was vandalised during the holidays. Image: Supplied
More than 1,500 pupils from Diepsloot Secondary School, north of Johannesburg, are yet to resume classes after their school was vandalised during the holidays.
The school’s windows have been smashed, electric cables were cut and taps and toilet seats were stolen.
School governing body (SGB) chairperson Matome Monyemanedene, said they had no choice but to take the decision not to reopen the school as it presents a danger to pupils.
“The school was vandalised during the holidays. As a result it does not have windows, toilet seats and taps, and there are electric cables lying around. We also don’t have enough personal protective equipment for pupils. The teachers who came two weeks before the reopening of schools had to ask to use toilets in neighbour
PREMIUM! Saheti School matriculants, from left, Andrew Oseghale, who achieved 2 distinctions, George Hicks with 9 distinctions, Sofia Rovithis, who achieved 6 distinctions, and Despina Lazanakis, who also achieved 6 distinctions, celebrate after collecting their 2020 matric results, 19 February 2021, at Saheti in Bedfordview. Picture: Michel Bega
Given the inequalities in South African society were widened by Covid-19, a significant drop in the release of matric results should be expected today, Unesco Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL) at Unisa Professor Moeketsi Letseka cautioned yesterday. “Professor Servaas van der Berg of Stellenbosch University projects just over 5% decline from the 81.3% pass rate achieved in 2019, and I think he’s being nice,” said Letseka. “My view, is that it is going to be worse than that.” Pointing to the second year-on-year drop in IEB results, Letseka notes that the drop